In this tutorial i will talk about How to Use HTML Entities to Add Special Characters to Web Pages. Some characters are reserved in HTML and they have special meaning when used in HTML document. For example, you cannot use the greater than and less than signs or angle brackets within your HTML text because the browser will treat them differently and will try to draw a meaning related to HTML tag. Character entities are used to display reserved characters in HTML. A character entity looks like this: &entity_name; OR &#entity_number;